GARAGE SALES FOR ME ARE NOW OVER!!!!!!!!!!!! Hallelujah! No more pricing hundreds (felt like thousands) of things, putting signs out in the neighborhood, newspaper ads, Facebook notices, emails to everyone I know and working hours and hours and hours on garage sales! A couple hundred folks came through on Saturday, buying the last of our earthly stuff!!! I love visiting with the folks while selling our stuff and seeing nice people take home the little things that have meant something to me. Other than the money it brought in, the visiting was the most rewarding to me. My daughter in law Liz and granddaughter Madisyn helped me with this sale and sold some of their stuff too! Madisyn was quite the little sales lady. She’d take all the children over to her toy section and help them pick out the toy they wanted mommy or daddy to buy. And of course the toy section was sold out by the end of the sale!

What’s left was displayed in front of the garage and notices sent out to come get it free. Cars were in and out all evening until 11 pm (and someone was even there this morning when we woke up!) since I posted it on Facebook’s Tangipahoa Buy, Sell, Trade page! That has been the best source for selling things I’ve found. If you live in this area you can sign up on their page and check out all the things folks sell and if you ever want to sell something it’s just a click away! The last of the things will be donated to a church garage sale today. We now have a mostly empty garage and all of our stuff is completely out of the house. Won’t someone please buy our house!

Roy has several computers and lots of computer stuff still to sell but that’s his thing and while I know I’ll be helping him some, it won’t be my responsibility which makes me a happy girl! His retirement date is coming up on the 28th of February and then he can dedicate his time to making that happen. Once the computer stuff is gone we’ll really be finished with the shedding of our earthly possessions!

It’s taken so long to sell the house that I’m kind of hoping it’s because God’s just been waiting for us to be truly rid of all the “stuff” we own, before he sends us a house buyer!!! Last weekend we had an open house and zero people came. It was raining and Mardi Gras parades were rolling. Next weekend we’ll try again and hopefully someone will come see our beautiful home!

Roy had a freak finger accident this week. He was peeling a banana and went to flick off the little black tip into the trash can and disjointed his finger. The ligament running on top came off and his finger was all contorted when I first saw it. He went to the walk in clinic and then to an orthopedic doctor and was told it just has to heal on its own in a finger splint. Being a man who makes his living fixing tiny things on computers, we didn’t know how he’d do it. He has amazed us with being able to continue working without missing a step. He’s of course enjoyed telling people that I hit him which broke it! Little old sweet me wouldn’t hurt my honey like that!

Roy spent the afternoon Sunday under Dora working on the slide, wounded finger and all. The motor to move the passenger slide in and out broke two weeks ago and a part had to be located, received and installed. I looked under Dora to see him and just found it so funny that he wasn’t laying on the ground working but was sitting up with his head not showing. I didn’t realize there were spaces under Dora where you could do that. I took a picture of what I could see of him so you can see what I’m talking about.

Madisyn got a little concerned because she couldn’t see Paw Paw’s head so I

took a picture of her looking for him. It’s such a joy having her around. She’s one little girl we’ll miss tremendously when we finally hit the road. We’re setting up Skype on our computers to visit with her better when that happens.

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I plan to write in my next blog about Work Camping which is called Workamping by some. If you’re interested in what that’s about stay tuned!